From: FOI
Department of Home Affairs

September 12, 2018

I refer to your correspondence received on 7 September 2018 seeking access to documents held by the Department of Home Affairs (the Department) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

You have requested access to the following:

All documents and correspondence relating to the FOI request FA 17/08/00642-R1, and the associated internal review.

Your request was received by the Department on 7 September 2018 and has been allocated FOI request number FA 18/09/00469 . Please include your FOI request number in all correspondence with the Freedom of Information Section.

Timeframe for receiving your decision

The statutory timeframe for processing a request is 30 days from the date upon which your application was received by the Department.

The Department’s policy is to exclude the personal details of officers not in the Senior Executive Service (SES), as well as the mobile and work telephone numbers of SES staff, contained in documents that fall within scope of an FOI request. If you require names and contact details of non-SES officers, or direct telephone numbers of SES staff, please inform us so the decision maker may consider your request. Otherwise we will take it that you agree to that information being excluded from the scope of your request.

Publication of document

Where documents are released to you in response to your request, the Department may be required to publish these documents on its website within 10 working days in accordance with section 11C of the FOI Act. Publication will not be required where the documents contain personal or business affairs information.

Contacting the FOI Section

Should you wish to discuss your request you may contact the FOI Section at [DIBP request email].

From: FOI
Department of Home Affairs

October 04, 2018

I refer to your request received on 7 September 2018 for access to documents under the FOI Act.

The current due date for your request is 8 October 2018. Due to the number of requests currently being processed by our office, we will not be able to finalise your request by the original due date.

The Department seeks your agreement under section 15AA of the FOI Act to extend the timeframe for the processing of your request by 30 days. This would extend the due date for your request to Wednesday 7 November 2018.

It would assist the Department in managing its FOI caseload if you could provide a response to this request by close of business, Monday 8 October 2018.

If you wish to discuss this matter further, please do not hesitate to contact me on the details below.

From: FOI
Department of Home Affairs

January 03, 2019

UNCLASSIFIED
Good morning

Please be advised that the Department is currently processing a large number of FOI requests. Our staff are working hard and the Department is committed to processing your client’s request as soon as possible.

A decision will be made in due course and you will be notified of this.

Please be assured that responses are afforded priority, delays can occur due to complexity or time passed.

If you require any further information, please forward your request to [DIBP request email]

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